Thursday 26 August 2010

Greenwich Armour

The lastest edition of Festival Times has just arrived. This is the newsletter of the Festival of Britain Society, and devotes itself to the amazing amount of material and events which emanated from the Festival in 1951. The newsletter always contains many intersting, and surprising, items.
You can contact the Society at http://www.festivalofbritain.org/.


I note in this one a whole page about a Greenwich industry - the Tudor manufacture of upmarket . This exhibition - part of the 1951 Festival - was at the Tower of London
and was the first time this collection had been brought together.


Armour made for the Earl of Warwick c.1615













A suit of armour made for George Clifford
3rd Earl of Cumberland c1568



Armour on the left made for Henry VII
Armour on the right made for William
Herbert, The Earl of Pembroke




Armour belonging to Henry Prince of Wales c.1610 on the left
one the right armour made for George Clifford 3rd Earl of
Cumberland c.1568

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